Here we go again. The presidential primaries are upon us.

Last week I opined that Washington’s “Farewell Address” to the nation was the best of its genre.

It would not be difficult to make the case that Gerald Ford was the greatest athlete ever to serve as President of the United States.

We’ve been subjected a great deal to the claim that we live in unprecedented times, but I suspect that only our liberal use of the term counts as unprecedented.

My mother had a democratic head and an aristocratic heart.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines virtue as the mean between the extremes. While few people confuse courage with its lack (cowardice), there are many who might confuse it with its excess (bravado or cockiness).

One of the things we’ve been very eager to pursue are partnerships with other publicly-minded organizations, particularly those who are addressing our democratic deficits.

Without question, the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil rights movement has impacted my entire life.

Donald Trump’s win in the Iowa caucus spurred a new round of commentary that Trump’s persistent and, to his critics, toxic presence in American politics portends a violence that could lead America into its next civil war.

In his debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln asserted, "With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

One of my standard tropes in my teaching days was to caution students against succumbing to “the tyranny of the present.”

Jean de Crèvecœur was a French expatriate who settled in New York in 1759 after having fought in the French and Indian Wars.

In a country so dominated by popular culture, those getting older lose touch with the young.

Last week I offered up Part 1 of this two-part response to David Brooks’ Atlantic essay “How America Got Mean.”

C. S. Lewis’s introduction to a modern translation of St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation offers an apologia for reading old books.

It is true that women were not in attendance at The Constitutional Convention, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exercise some influence behind the scenes.

In recent years, we’ve heard a lot of talk about assaults on “our democracy” and about protecting “our democracy,” usually from people we might call “elites” in government and the news media.

Last week I mentioned that I would be commenting upon a recent David Brooks’ essay. 

In the middle decades of the 20^th century, there were topics that people just didn’t talk about in polite company.